Turkey defeats Portugal, victories for Netherlands, England

The Netherlands warmed up for Euro 2012 in style with a 6-0 thrashing of Northern Ireland, while there were also wins for tournament hopefuls England, Denmark and co-hosts Poland in friendly internationals Saturday, dpa reported.

However Portugal's run of poor form continued with a 3-1 defeat against Turkey in Lisbon which included a penalty miss by Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Dutch, who come up against Germany, Portugal and Denmark at Euro 2012, went into overdrive against Northern Ireland in Amsterdam two days before they leave for the tournament and their base in Krakow, Poland.

Robin van Persie scored in the seventh minute and was again on target with a penalty in the 23rd following a 15th-minute goal from Wesley Sneijder.

Ibrahim Afellay hit the fourth and fifth in the 37th and 51st minutes while Ron Vlaar completed the scoring 12 minutes from time.

Roy Hodgson's first home game as England manager ended in 1-0 victory over Belgium at Wembley.

Danny Welbeck got the only goal of the game seven minutes before half-time while both sides struck the post late on.

The one concern for England before they head for their base in Krakow was the loss of centre-half Gary Cahill who was sent for a precautionary X-ray on his jaw following a collision with keeper Joe Hart.

England, who are in group D with France, co-hosts Ukraine and Sweden, have already lost midfielders Frank Lampard and Gareth Barry with injuries.

"We're hoping the CT scan doesn't show a fracture and that it's just going to be a bruising situation," Hodgson said.

John Terry also limped off with a hamstring problem. "John felt his hamstring a little bit - again it wasn't a major thing but we still need to scan it just to be 100 per cent sure," Hodgson said.

Ronaldo, on his 90th international appearance, missed a penalty as Portugal slid to a 3-1 defeat to Turkey in their last warm-up match for Euro 2012 to whistles from a 65,000 crowd at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon.

Portugal are yet to win this year after goalless draws on Saturday against Macedonia and in February against Poland.

Toulouse striker Umut Bulut struck on the break in the 34th and 52nd minutes before Nani pulled one back for the home side.

But Ronaldo's penalty was saved by Volkan Demirel eight minutes later and Turkey made it three two minutes from time with an own goal when Ricardo Costa's goalline clearance struck team-mate Pepe and the ball rolled over the line.

Denmark downed Australia 2-0 in Copenhagen and Poland were comfortable 4-0 winners over Andorra in Warsaw.

Daniel Agger with a penalty in the 32nd minute and Andreas Bjelland in the 68th got the goals for Denmark, a week before they begin their Euro 2012 campaign against the Netherlands in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland breezed to a 4-0 win over Andorra, with a pair of goals from Borussia Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski and Jakub Blaszczykowski.

Ludovic Obraniak opened the scoring in the 13th minute before Lewandowski in the 37th, Blaszczykowski from the penalty spot two minutes later and Marcin Wasilewski in the 77th netted in a one-sided game.

Poland play Greece in the opening match of Euro 2012 in Warsaw on Friday, with Russia and Czech Republic to follow in group A.

In Oslo, Croatia's last test before the tournament ended in a 1-1 draw with Norway. Substitute Eduardo gave Croatia the lead nine minutes before time but Tarik Elyounoussi levelled in stoppage time.

Croatia are in group C with Ireland, Italy and European and world champions Spain.